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Start/Finish,

Like some lifetime project tinged with scepticism, David Shrigley’s art is a never-ending flow of curious propositions and strange moral dilemmas. Start/Finish, the animated film which he is showing here, is a slightly adapted version of a Sega arcade game from the 1980s called Out Run. But, instead of driving a comfortable car in a game booth, spectator is dragged onto a road, on which characters loom out of nowhere calling for help. Without ever stopping or reducing speed, the film runs on, leaving the distressed figures by the wayside. The artist explains: “Maybe it’s a revision of the tale of The Good Samaritan”, a parable about a traveller, attacked and left for dead by bandits, that nobody, apart from the Samaritan, stopped to help.